[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5519]
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            PAKISTAN AND THE VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO

  Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign 
Relations Committee be discharged from further consideration of Senate 
Resolution 102, expressing the sense of the Senate concerning Pakistan 
and the visit of Prime Minister Bhutto; further, that the Senate 
proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk 
will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 102) to express the sense of the 
     Senate concerning Pakistan and the impending visit of Prime 
     Minister Bhutto.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.


                           Amendment No. 594

  Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk on 
behalf of Senator Pressler.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. Thompson], for Mr. 
     Pressler, proposes an amendment numbered 594.
       On line 4 of page 2, after ``the'', add the following: 
     ``people of the''.

  Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
amendment be agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  So the amendment (No. 594) was agreed to.
  Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
resolution and the preamble be agreed to; that the motion to reconsider 
be laid upon the table; and that any statements relating to the 
resolution be placed at the appropriate place in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  So the resolution (S. Res. 102), as amended, was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, is as follows:

       Whereas Pakistan and the United States have been allies 
     since 1947, and throughout the difficult days of the Cold 
     War;
       Whereas Pakistan was a front-line state against Soviet 
     totalitarian expansionism and worked with the United States 
     to successfully end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan;
       Whereas Pakistan has been in the forefront of United 
     Nations peacekeeping operations, recently being the largest 
     contributor of forces to United Nations peacekeeping 
     operations;
       Whereas Pakistan has cooperated with the United States in 
     the apprehension and swift extradition of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, 
     the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attack on the World 
     Trade Center in New York City;
       Whereas Pakistan's economy is being increasingly 
     liberalized and opened to outside investors and businesses;
       Whereas there are increasing opportunities for economic 
     cooperation between Pakistan and the United States as a 
     result of private sector agreements for investment in 
     Pakistan's energy sector and other pending agreements; and
       Whereas Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who has worked to 
     strengthen Pakistan's close relationship with the United 
     States, was reelected to office in October, 1993, and is 
     scheduled to visit the United States on an official visit in 
     April: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the United States Senate--
       (1) welcomes the visit of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to 
     the United States as a sign of the warm, enduring friendship 
     between the people of the United States and Pakistan; and
       (2) pledges to work with the Government of Pakistan to 
     strengthen the United States-Pakistan relationship in the 
     years ahead.

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